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Dallas Still Wants to Control Speech on JFK Anniversary

Is the Trilateral Commission behind an anti-conspiracy conspiracy?

My Jerusalem's Jeff Klein On Getting Soy Bombed, The Replacements and X

Jeff Klein, frontman and main songwriter behind My Jerusalem, has shared some of his background before, but not for My First Show. My Jerusalem, whose new album, Preachers, is out next week, comes back to Dada on Friday. Klein took time out a few weeks ago to share his obsession with Paul Westerberg ... More >>

The Best Thing To Do with Fair Not-Really-A-Park Is Tear That Mother Down

Brent Best Talks About Going Solo, The Legacy of Slobberbone and Having Rachel Maddow As a Fan

On and off, for nearly three decades, Brent Best has fronted Slobberbone, arguably the best alt-country act to emerge from the local scene. Beginning in the mid-'90s, the group produced a series of albums that culminated in 2000's Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today, which remains a lan ... More >>

Can Accused Killer Seth Winder Stay Sane Long Enough to Stand Trial?

For the friends and family of Richard Hernandez, justice seemed imminent -- until his accused killer's medically induced competence slipped away.

The Problem With... Taylor Swift's "Safe & Sound" feat. The Civil Wars

Between her worldwide Speak Now Tour and controlling her possible mania, pop-country star Taylor Swift had quite a 2011. If Swift's latest single is any indication, we might see another side of her in 2012. A dark, apocalyptic side straight out of an early Stephen King novel. "Safe & Sound" ties in ... More >>

Dallas Still "Coming to Grips" With Kennedy Assassination? Still "Wounded"? If You Say So.

​Nicola Longford, executive director of the Sixth Floor Museum, won't talk to Schutze, no fan of the museum's plans to take over Dealey Plaza two years from today. But she will visit with the Los Angeles Times about those plans, not to mention that Dealey Plaza redo the city's splitting with the m ... More >>

At Opening of Dallas Murder Trial, Defense Pins Partial Blame on The First 48

Seth Winder​Sometime late in the night of September 3, 2008, prosecutors say The Colony resident Seth Winder, then 29, murdered his lover, dismembered his body, and hauled the pieces out to the dumpster of the victim's North Dallas apartment complex. Richard Hernadez's friends at Walmart on F ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Blind Guardian at Trees, Jay Brannan at The Loft and Mini Mansions at The Cavern

Tuesday evening brings a couple of decent triple-bills and a tandem of sensitive singer-songwriters to our area for your musical enjoyment. Which is as good an excuse as any to leave the house tonight.

A Chorus Line, Gutenberg! the Musical: one big, one small, one Dallas, one Fort Worth, both worth it.

Ryan Cabrera

The Moon Under Water (Papa Joe)

Film 2007: Bad Blood

Horror films failed to scare up the big bucks in 2007

Satan's Playlist

Never fear—we've got your Halloween mixtape here

Fist Things First

Going for Broke

NASCAR team owner Jeff Milburn might never win a race, but there's more to life than a checkered flag

Flick It

Your guide to summer's hottest films

Levelland

McMurtry lays it out straight

Gold Needles in the Pop-Rock Haystack

The best end-to-end albums from a single-driven year

Our top DVD picks for the week of September 12

Our top DVD picks for the week of August 29

Girl Trouble

An imprisoned mother plots her revenge in Park Chan-wook's Lady Vengeance

No Surrender

Marah is back in fighting form on If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Break a Leg

Misery strips King's thriller to the bone at RTC; for Hypochondriac, take two aspirin

Piece of Cake

Payback could be sweet

The Misfits

The fantastic, the majestic...the Decemberists

Writer's Block

Texas prisons start barring book authors from inmate interviews

Old Souls

Old City Park promises a scary Dark Night. We wish.

By the Book

A DART police officer helps crack a murder case, only to lose his job

Cover Up

Slobberbone preparing to hit the road in support of new album

Making Book

First-time authors gamble on a new form of publishing taking its first shaky steps

Asking for It

Storytelling continues Solondz's bluster of sex, rage and insanity

Capra Corn

A screenwriter loses his memory in The Majestic, but there wasn't much to misplace

Ape Escape

Monkeybone, like a dream, is best when half-remembered

Silent Scream

Mute and immobile, Alice Joy Taylor couldn't cry out when fire ants attacked her in her nursing-home bed, but would anyone have heard her if she did?

The new old sound

Branford Marsalis' latest disc is a Requiem by and for a heavyweight

Barefoot in the manger

Stage West's The Christmas Mysteries is an ultra-casual romp through the Bible

Science friction

Dallas author Patricia Anthony's sci-fi caught Hollywood's interest. But her decision to chuck the whole genre caught New York's wrath.

Events for the week

Out There

Metal's crimson King

The mellow Satanism of King Diamond

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Dallas Observer critics Jimmy Fowler and James Mardis selected the following films on their lists of the year's best:

No Safe place

Todd Haynes' new feature is the ultimate horror film for the '90s

Hellbound

The hyped-up supernatural thriller Hideaway is too sloppy to be scary